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On-premises hosting, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

On-premises hosting, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS - Azure Tutorial

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On-premises hosting, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

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- [Instructor] Before we move into talking about the different Microsoft solutions in the data platform, it's important to have a quick discussion about the differences between on-premises, IaaS, Paas, and Saas. First we have on-premises. This has been the option traditionally chosen before public clouds became widely available. And it's still the only option for highly regulated industries that forbid cloud hosting. Also regulatory bodies are quickly realizing that the cloud hosting can be even safer when properly configured. In this model, you'll be responsible for everything, hardware, software, cabling, patching, backups, VMs, the storage, and so on. You can have high upfront costs and scalability is more difficult and expensive. Examples of on-premises technologies are SQL Server or a physical file server running Windows Server 2019. The next layer of abstraction is IaaS, or infrastructure as a service. On…

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